Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 11

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• I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

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  Tree, Forever, Canopy

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• I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

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  Three, Seven, Forty

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• Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

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  Thinking, Today, Sides

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• You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

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  Stones, Kingdoms, Able

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• Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

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  Tyrants, Want, Knows

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1206, Penguin UK

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• Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lend them west." "We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

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  Prayer, Children, Voice

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• Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.

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  Prayer, Believe, Said

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• I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

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  Thinking, Hands, Knowing

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• you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

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  Hands, Alive, Breathe

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.330, Penguin UK

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• We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock." "Cows?" Anson Choi asks, covering his nose. "Pigs, too. And horses. Great for growing tomatoes. The Cadets are wanna-be soldiers. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. "I'm going to throw up," one of the guys says. "Don't feel too bad," I explain. "Some of our lot did while they were laying out this stuff. Actually, right there where you're standing.

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  Horse, Fighting, College

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• Women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that.

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  Thinking, Elephants, Watches

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• Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

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  Listening, Tone, Excuse

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• A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.

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  World, Entrances, Underestimated

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• He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

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  Laughing, Satisfaction, Mines

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.69, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

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  People, Personality, Suffering

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.

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  Song, Kings, Queens

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• I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking about. "What's odious?" I ask. "O.D.S," he says, pointing to his discman and obviously referring to some dropkick band. Like I really care.

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  Confused, Talking, Ideas

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.

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  Winning, Two, Numbers

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• It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

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  Years, Personality, Doe

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• There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning of winter.’ ‘Oh the poor animal,’ she cried out, ‘they’re such beautiful creatures.’ ‘I’m speaking of the royal seal placed on correspondence, as you would know,’ he said.

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  Beautiful, Winter, Animal

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• If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I’d spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That’s the difference between you and me, Tom. I’d go back to the moment it all fell apart and I’d start there.

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  Hurt, Heart, Differences

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• Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

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  Cousin, Powerful, Heart

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.465, Penguin UK

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• For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.

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  Girl, Sadness, Eye

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.

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  Lying, Smoking, Bed

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• Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?' she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting for the answer. And then she smiles. Webb once said that a Narnie smile was a revelation and, at this moment, I need a revelation. And I get one. 'I wonder,' Hannah says.

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  Dad, Thinking, Waiting

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